Museums
I went to a museum up in San Francisco today. There was a gallery for Chiluly. He does glass blowing sculptures, which, really, are kind of…..boring? I mean, here’s the thing, okay…I think art should be contained to specific things, such as; old Mayan artifacts, paintings (to some degree) and some statue/sculptures. Because really, the thing is about paintings, there are paintings that are basically a bunch of big squares, with different colors, in different positions, and the thing about others is there are ones that are only blotches of paint that seem to be squeezed right outta the tube.
I’ve seen kindergardener’s finger paintings that look better than the blotch ones, and as for the squares, who the hell can’t paint THAT? It doesn’t take a genius to paint a rectangle. I have the same argument with art school, ya know? I took an art class in 8th grade (ironically enough, I learned about glass blowing, go figure, right?). Anyway, it was weird ’cause after I took it, I found I HATED art, and my style was totally f’ed up, so I didn’t draw for a long time, possibly a good year or so. I mean, if they could make art, they wouldn’t be teaching it.
The other thing I REALLY hated about the museum was the fact that they actually had, in a glass case, art supplies…..BEING DISPLAYED AS A PIECE OF ART. I mean, I think that’s the tops of the irony factor right there my friends. When art supplies become art themselves, we’re reached a new low in civilization. And why would anybody PAY to see glass? I could go to a church for free and see stained glass FOR FREE. For god sakes I could go into my bathroom and and paint my mirror and see THAT!
And the sign. Oh boy, THIS just proves people are stupid. There was a sign by the exit of the exhibit, that read “Exit only; No re-entry”. EVERYBODY WHO WENT PAST TRIED TO COME BACK. They claimed they didn’t see it, which is possible because NOBODY READS SIGNS. If you drive, you know this is a fact. But no, it didn’t stop, not only did they claim not to see the sign, they then would ARGUE with the security guard….like that would HELP, right? I mean, are these people senile or WHAT?!
I only have one more in the complaint department, and that would be this need to take children. I think it’s the same idea of playing mozart to a fetus. Which REALLY works because a fetus has F*CKING EARS!!! But I think it’s in that same idea range, ya know? “Oh maybe if we expose our child to cultured things, they will be more cultured, and smarter!”
So they take their kids to theater (broadway), museums, make them play cello, wear nice clothes, speak elegantly, be clean, and let them only listen to classical music. Then years down the road they’re shocked when they discover their son’s future spouse is named Todd.
More on kids in my next blog entry, but it’s been enough bitching for today. See yall tomorrow folks.
m@rk
